linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: reduce scheduling latency by changing tlb flush size

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Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 13:12:42 +0900
From:	Tsutomu OWA <tsutomu.owa@...hiba.co.jp>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: reduce scheduling latency by changing tlb flush size


At Mon, 14 May 2007 16:40:02 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> On Monday 14 May 2007, Tsutomu OWA wrote:
> > --- linux-2.6.21-rt1/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h     2007-04-26 12:08:32.000000000 +0900
> > +++ rt/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h   2007-05-14 16:12:47.000000000 +0900
> > @@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ struct mm_struct;
> >  #include <linux/percpu.h>
> >  #include <asm/page.h>
> >  
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_CELLEB) && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)
> > +/* Since tlb flush takes long time on Celleb, reduce it to 1 when Celleb && RT */
> > +#define PPC64_TLB_BATCH_NR 1

> With this code, you get silent side-effects of enabling PPC_CELLEB
> along with another platform.

  Yeah, thank you for pointing it out.
  I'll send revised patch later.

> Maybe instead you should change the hpte_need_flush() to always flush
> when running on the celleb platform and PREEMPT_RT is enabled.

  Hmm... Is it in linux-2.6.21?  grep'ing it did not help... 

  Is http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=10361 is the first place
where the hpte_need_flush() appears?

-- owa
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